5/8/2015

This has been a good week. We had quite a few great, interesting things happen this week! 

Well to start off we were able to give on of the first Spanish lessons taught in Chile (hahaha) to Jimmy and Dalen, the Haitian investigators. They are progressing well and are commited to come to church this week. And they asked us for help in Spanish! Hahaha it was really funny!

The first really cool thing was what we taught to a part member family. Pablo and Estefany. They are from Uruguay, and they are great! They have 2 little girls and they are awesome too! So we decided we were going to try to teach the Restoration in a way that they could really understand.

So we took 3 candles and put them on a plate, and we taught a little bit about prophets and dispensations and stuff, until we got to the Earthly Ministry of Jesus Christ. And when we taught about the establishment of Christ's church, we lit the 3 candles. One for the 12 Apostles, one for the Priesthood, and then one for the Revelation necessary for Christ to guide his church after his death. 

Then we talked about the Apostasy. When Christ died, he still lead his church through the Revelation to his apostles. But when the Apostles died, so did the church, and we blew our the candles. The room we were in went dark.

But as we explained the Restoration, and the First Vision of Joseph Smith, we were able to light the 3 candles again! Because through Joseph Smith 12 Apostles were called, the Priesthood was restored, as was the Revelation. And as we lit the candles again, the room lit up. It was really clear! They understood it really well! It was all around a great experience!

Then on Saturday, we were able to take a lot of investigators on a tour of the Temple in Santiago. It went really well! Of the 5 people that went, 2 are sure to get married in order to get baptized, one had recieved his answer and wants to get baptized and our investigator Julio is keeping his commitments and has shown interest in being baptized! It was incredible! We were able to go into the front doors of the temple into the reception area and be a few minutes in silence! And the Spirit was incredible! It was so cool! The first picture I put there is a foto of all of us who went on the tour!

So overall a great week!

And then the other picture is of me giving my Zone Leader a hair cut! Haha, it actually turned out all right. Another thing I've learned here on the mission.